This river's called pretension and its source
- DMI number:
- 23302
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- This river's called pretension and its source
- Last Line:
- Yet all adore her voice and her wise conduct praise
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Allegory and Couplet
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice[Pretension]
- Author:
- Aphra Behn
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Part of 'A Voyage to the Isle of Love'. Todd (1992) I: 119-20, lines 675-710.
- Translated from:
- Paul Tallemant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems by eminent ladies [vol 1] [T42592] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.84-85
- Poem Title:
- The River of Pretension.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- Title:
- Poems by eminent ladies [vol 1] [T60050] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.74-75
- Poem Title:
- The River of Pretension.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- Title:
- Poems by the most eminent ladies of Great-Britain and Ireland [T144911 vol. I]
- Page No(s):
- pp.84-85
- Poem Title:
- The River of Pretension.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
- Title:
- Poems upon several occasions with a voyage to the island of love [ESTC R30218]
- Page No(s):
- pp. 41-3
- Poem Title:
- The River of Pretension.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Behn's name.
- Attributed To:
- Aphra Behn
Poem Aliases
Behn. A Voyage to the Isle of Love.
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